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E. E. MARSHALL.

FEEDING DEVICE FOR PLANTERS AND DISTRIBUTERS. No. 395,286. Patented Dec. 25, 1888.

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B. E. MARSHALL.

FEEDING DEVICE FOR PLANTERS AND DISTRIBUTERS.

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ljnirnn starts tartar Cr EUGENE ELLIS MARSHALL, OF NEAR LOUISBURG, NORTH CAROLINA, AS-

SIGNOR OF TlVO-THIRDS TO ARTHUR ARRINGTON AND J. K. SPENCER, OF SAME PLACE.

FEEDING DEVICE FOR PLANTERS AND DHSTRIBUTERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 395,286, dated December 25, 1888.

Application filed March 14, 1388x Serial No. 267,193. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: ferred feed-slide, showing the peculiar openlle it known that I, EUGENE ELLIS MAR in gs in the same and the projections or studs. SHALL, a citizen of the United States, resid- Fig. at is a longitudinal sectional view of a ing near Louisburg, in the county of Frankplanter or distributer, showing the feeding lin and State of North Carolina, haveinvented device in situation for use. 5 5 certain new and useful Improvements in Referring to the drawings, A designates the Feeding Devices for Planters, Distributers, casing or housing, of any suitable material, (to; and I do hereby declare the following to but preferably of metal. \Vithin this casing be a full, clear, and exact description of the is placed a resilient or spring finger, a, which invention, such as will enable others skilled in may be constructed of a piece of metal pivthe art to which it appertains to make and oted at its upper end to the top of the casing,

use the same. or formed by an elongated loop of a coiled This invention relates to planters and dis spring mounted on a bar and secured to the tributers. sides of the casing, or in any other desirable I 5 The object is to produce a device to be used manner. 5

in connection with planters and distributors, a designates theends of the casing, which by which any clogging or packing of the subare so constructed as to admit of motion in stance fed and consequent mutilation of sub- Ward where pressure is brought to bear from stance fedsuch as grainwill be prevented; without, and which are kept in a proper posi- 2o furthermore, to produce a device which shall tion by means of a spring, (L2, or other suitbe simple of construction, efficient and duraable device, which also acts to cause them to ble in use, and comparatively inexpensive of resume their normal position when moved in production. the operation of the machine.

lVith these objects in view my invention B designates a slide, which moves under the 25 resides in an attachment for planters concasing or housing, having a number of opensisting in a casing or housing having yieldings, b, entering its side, which engage the in g walls and arranged above the outlet-openspring-finger and operate it at each movein g; furthermore, in an attachment for plant ment of the slide, and also having a number ers consisting in a feed-slide having openof studs or projections, Z), which are designed o ings and a casing or housing having yieldto act as stirrers, and when in operation move ing walls arranged above the feedslide; furin a groove, a cut in one side of the under thermore, in an attachment for planters consurfaee of the housing or casing. sisting in a feed-slide, a housing or casing The mannerof operating this deviceisillusarranged above the slide, and a spring-linger trated in Fig. 4:, where it is shown secured to 3 5 or spring-fingers arranged within the housthe bottom portion of a planter and distribing, and, finally, in certain details of conuter directly over the discharge-opening. struction hereinafter described and claimed. W hen the apparatus is being worked for In the accompanying drawings, forming the purpose of, say, planting, the box or hoppart of this specification, I have illustrated per C is filled with grain or seed, and the 0 one form of device embodying my invention, slide B is operated by suitable mechanism to although there are many ways of carrying impart to it a reciprocating motion, so that the same into effect. the openings 1) are brought alternately over In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective a corresponding opening or openings in the view showing the elastic spring-finger seated bottom of the hopper. The openings in the 5 in its casing or housing, showing also the slide are made of sufficient size to allow any housing with a groove at one side of its under desired quantity of the substance to escape; surface. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional but should a larger amount enter the openview of the feeding device, showing the springing than can escape easily, or should the subseated finger and the yielding parts of the stance become packed or jammed, the slidein 50 housing. Fig. is a plan view of the prepassing back brings the substance in contact I00 with the movableends, pressing th em inward, and thus preventing the substance from being mashed or mutilated. The finger a then strikes against the substance and dislodges it, thereby causing it to drop from the opening in the bottom of the hopper.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, with a feed-slide, of a casing or housing having yielding walls to prevent crushing or jamming in the operation of the machine, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with a feed-slide hav ing openings, of the casing or housing having yielding walls to prevent crushing or jamming in the operation of the machine, substantially as described.

3. The combination, with the feed -slide having openings, of the casin or housing having yielding Walls, and a spring-finger or spring-fingers located Within the casing or housing, substantially as described.

4. The combination, with the feed-slide having projections, the casing or housing having yielding parts and provided with a groove, and a springfinger or spring-fingers, substantially as described.

5. The combination, with the feed-slide provided with discharge-openings and with projections forming stirrer-s, of the casing or housing having yielding Walls and the groove, and the spring-finger or spring-fingers arranged within the housing, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EUGENE ELLIS MARSHALL.

Vitnesses:

0. H. HARRIS,

W. ll. FURMAN, Jr. 

